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Acharn · 07-12-2014, 04:54 AM

I have Calibre 1.44 running on Windows 7. I have to say that I love calibre, but right now I'm a bit frustrated. For the last year or so I've been occasionally running "Library Maintenance/Check Database" and getting large numbers of every category of "Problems found." Eventually I've got it down to Extra Titles (104 entries) and Extra Authors (22 entries). The program shows 1,034 books, which I suppose is from the database rather than counting files in the library.

The thing is, the only option I'm given is to delete the files and directories, but I don't want to delete them, I want to get them added to the database. The folder titles already have numbers in them, which I suppose means they were put in the library by Calibre when I added them. This is important enough to me to do manually (it'll take many hours, if not days), but is there any alternative? Should I copy the folders to another containing folder and add them to the library from there? Would it be OK to add them to the library from the library? I have visions of starting an infinite loop, but I don't suppose that's likely. Oh, I ran the "Restore Database" option and got a message that it ran with "some" errors. When I checked the details the "some" errors turned out to be a couple hundred lines of Python errors. Some of the previous extra titles were added to the database and some that were in the database are now listed as extra titles. Should I be sending a bug report to Kovid Goyal?

07-12-2014, 04:54 AM	#1
Acharn Member Posts: 23 Karma: 1010 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: none	How to fix extra authors I have Calibre 1.44 running on Windows 7. I have to say that I love calibre, but right now I'm a bit frustrated. For the last year or so I've been occasionally running "Library Maintenance/Check Database" and getting large numbers of every category of "Problems found." Eventually I've got it down to Extra Titles (104 entries) and Extra Authors (22 entries). The program shows 1,034 books, which I suppose is from the database rather than counting files in the library. The thing is, the only option I'm given is to delete the files and directories, but I don't want to delete them, I want to get them added to the database. The folder titles already have numbers in them, which I suppose means they were put in the library by Calibre when I added them. This is important enough to me to do manually (it'll take many hours, if not days), but is there any alternative? Should I copy the folders to another containing folder and add them to the library from there? Would it be OK to add them to the library from the library? I have visions of starting an infinite loop, but I don't suppose that's likely. Oh, I ran the "Restore Database" option and got a message that it ran with "some" errors. When I checked the details the "some" errors turned out to be a couple hundred lines of Python errors. Some of the previous extra titles were added to the database and some that were in the database are now listed as extra titles. Should I be sending a bug report to Kovid Goyal?